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XMPP

I just came across a post titled In search of XMPP perfection while researching some stuff, and it’s a pretty solid set of words that gels with my own feelings about the state of the XMPP network. You should go and read it if you’re interested in the topic of XMPP services, and if you’re following my blog I sincerely hope you are, or you’re going to get really bored.

I’m going to add most (but not all) of the final functionality to the server here, and start allowing public registration. After this, I’ll move on to getting the web site up and we’ll start identifying problems we have and some potential solutions.

I originally planned to use my own reseller account’s DNS hosting with an existing domain, but I woke up one morning utterly convinced that I needed to own chinwag.im and I don’t have reseller access to that TLD through my normal setup. I picked it up through my Gandi account, but their DNS interface is … well, “awful” is being generous.

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. I was originally going to make this post about SRV records and SSL certificates at this point, but StartSSL won’t issue me a certificate for chinwag.im until the domain is older than three days (at the time of writing it’s only … [Read more …]

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. Environment I’ve started with Ubuntu 14.04 as the platform for this project, mainly due to it having a good selection of the packages we’ll need at suitable versions, and it’s a well-tested option for the software we’ll be deploying. I have registered … [Read more …]

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. The base operating system for this project will be Ubuntu 14.04, mainly because a lot of what we’ll need is conveniently packaged for it at appropriate versions. Not much of what is going on is going to be OS-specific though and … [Read more …]

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. So for nearly five years now, I’ve been running a public XMPP server to support a small community. Since it first appeared, XMPP (or Jabber) has had its ups and downs but has never really seemed to get any mainstream traction, … [Read more …]